The director of the Cognitive Humanistic Institute in Thailand introduces cognitive humanistic therapy (CHT) as an approach to psychotherapy, self-therapy, and personal practice emphasizing human rather than divine matters, reason, and--unlike cognitive behavior therapy--mind skills amenable to improvement. With case study examples and descriptions of such CHT practices as challenging the illusions of an independent self and mental efficiency, Nelson-Jones presents the skilled client model, i.e. a collaborative practitioner-client relationship toward cultivation of such higher-order skills. Among CHT research implications is the view of many of people's problems in Western materialistic societies as systemic rather than individual.
